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Date:      Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:12:18 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: serial driver
Message-ID:  <199703090042.LAA27770@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970308121912.11140A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from Narvi at "Mar 8, 97 01:28:08 pm"

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Narvi stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > The NS 16550AFC is known good.
> > 
> > I think that's the whole list, actually.
> > 
> 
> Well, it is shorter than I was afraid it would be 2-3 entries :-(

There are a lot more than 2-3 entries.

> After all, there are several UART makers (Zilog, TI, Philips, Dallas,
> maybe also more). And out of all that stuff only one is known good? Damn.
> Anyways, on the NS website they only talk about 16550D :-(

I have no idea why Terry completely ignores me when I tell him that
the current 16550 from NS is the PC16550D.  It works.

UARTs from TI and Startech have shown themselves to work quite well
too.

> 	Sander

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